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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How old was Lame Deer when his mother died?
(a) 15.
(b) 17.
(c) 18.
(d) 12.

2. What does the Sioux word wincincalas mean?
(a) Frightened dogs.
(b) Monstrous buffaloes.
(c) Powerful warriors.
(d) Good-looking girls.

3. What did the girls often do when the time of parting had come for them and someone they love?
(a) They would carve their name into the young man's belt.
(b) They would make up a song.
(c) They would send pieces of their hair with the young man.
(d) They would pass around the peace pipe.

4. In the beginning of the tale about the Stone Boy, a young girl had how many brothers?
(a) Three.
(b) Two.
(c) Four.
(d) Five.

5. Lame Deer talks about a bird in the book that doesn't chirp. What did the white man call this type of bird?
(a) An owl.
(b) A night hawk.
(c) A crow.
(d) A golden eagle.

6. As a start to a yuwipi meeting what needed to be done with all the windows and doors?
(a) They needed to be covered with blankets.
(b) They needed to be purified.
(c) The needed to be opened.
(d) They needed to be painted.

7. Lame Deer states that their tribe's oldest lady had a face like what?
(a) Rippled water.
(b) The rock covered mountains.
(c) The Badlands.
(d) The wrinkled sheet.

8. In the tale about the Stone Boy, what does the young girl swallow?
(a) A boy.
(b) A stone.
(c) An arrow.
(d) A horse.

9. Korczak Ziolkowski told Lame Deer and Richard Erdoes that his Crazy Horse monument would dwarf what?
(a) The tallest buildings in New York.
(b) The pyramids of Egypt.
(c) The white man.
(d) Mount Rushmore.

10. What did Lame Deer mention was a problem for Indians and that it wouldn't get better?
(a) Alcoholism.
(b) Ceremonies.
(c) Death.
(d) Hunting.

11. In Chapter 8, Lame Deer talks about a young Navajo boy and girl in their apartment in their city. What color of blanket did he put over this young couple?
(a) Yellow.
(b) Blue.
(c) White.
(d) Red.

12. What does Lame Deer say the white man forgot to give Indians when they brought them whiskey?
(a) A flask.
(b) The instruction book.
(c) A woman to cry about.
(d) Green frog skin.

13. What was the word that the Sioux tribe used for the stone god?
(a) Mosaken.
(b) Wagmuha.
(c) Tunkan.
(d) Cheyne.

14. What does the steam represent that is coming out of the pot mentioned in the beginning of Chapter 6?
(a) New life.
(b) Mystery.
(c) Darkness.
(d) Living breath.

15. If a boy wasn't satisfied with just rubbing noses with a girl, he would ask an elk medicine man to make him what?
(a) An ax.
(b) A flute.
(c) A bow and arrow.
(d) A horse bridle.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the name of the old medicine man that brought Lame Deer to the vision pit on the hilltop?

2. One way for young folks to get together was for the girl to stand outside her family's tipi with what?

3. How many horses did Lame Deer's father have?

4. When Lame Deer talks about the four square miles along the Rapid River that his great-grandfather and his tribe had taken away from them, he talks about the government missing out on a life-sized dinosaur made out of green what?

5. What does Lame Deer say is the main thing in marriage?

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